The thing is that there's a middle between not caring at all (like the original poster seemed to do) and sending the whole army and killing hundreds of thousands people in Iraq so you can free Koweit (not mentionning the latest "preventive strikes").
The US is very quick when there is commercial interests at stake and don't care at all when not. Don't believe this? Then why is there no economic relations Cuba because of human rights issues, while they're doing everything to promote trade with China?
They can disrespect human rights human rights if they like, but not respecting the GPL is too much. We must fight to protect software freedom in China and save the GPL!
Seriously, as far as I'm concerned, software license abuse in China is not the top priority...
I may sound like a troll of sorts or anti Intel, but when it comes to high end scientific engineering does anyone actually use anything outside the realms of Sun, Irix, and Alpha?
I do. For my master project, I've trained hundred of neural networks, each taking between an hour and 2 days to train. At my job, we're doing the same kind of stuff on linux and solaris PC's. I believe a lot of people do that too. PC's are so cheap compared to the other architecture, that it's still the best thing to buy for many types of computations.
And by the way, training a neural network requires about one division for several millions of add/mul.
I just bought a DVD player, downloader omi (www.linuxvideo.org) and it worked without any problem. Note, however that it was using 80% CPU on my new Athlon 1.4 GHz.
The me, whether or not neutrinos travel at (exactly) the speed of light sounds about as important as whether or not they have a rest mass (well, I guess the two are linked anyway since I think you cannot have a particle with no rest mass traveling below the speed of light).
If it doesn't need to travel at the speed of light, that means you could theoreticaly stop one (which you cannot do with a photon, at least in vaccum). I wonder what a 1 kg "ball" of neutrinos would look like...
I though neutrinos traveled at the speed of light, is that wrong? Otherwise, the total mass would be m0/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) which goes to infinity as v->c. What's wrong with this reasoning?
The problem with this is that we are giving the evil aliens the blueprints of our species. There is the chance, however unlikely, that they might find a weakness... and exploit it.
I remember when I bought my last CD player and the guy was explaining to me that there are different qualities of fiber (for CD digital IO). He told me he could hear the difference, that the sound with a lesser-quality fiber had a different "color" (I didn't tell him I had an EE degree). I would have liked to see this guy to do a listening test and try differentiating fiber quality.
Sure, there's a lot of different quality, but at these distances they're all equal. Moreover, bit errors will sound like (additive) white noise and will not "color" the sound. I don't know whether the guy believed what he said or was just trying to sell expensive stuff.
Who moderated this as insightful??? Can I meta-moderate this as "Funny" or is this guy seriously thinking it's a good idea to apply this "Darwinian Monitoring Model".
If a person is addicted to gambling they will find a way to gamble - no matter the effort required.
It's not about those who want to gamble, it's for those who want to stop. Most can manage not to go to a casino, but with billions of banner ads saying "clink here to gamble", it's going to be a lot harder for these people not to gamble. If it takes you 30 minutes to drive to a casino, you've got plenty of time to reason to turn back, but if all it takes is two clicks, it becomes a lot harder.
There are two differences here. First, you can buy cigarettes online, but you cannot "smoke online"... and since it's more complicated online than going to the nearest store, online sale of tobacco is not making things any worse for you. Online gambling *is* making things worse.
The second important differences is the implications. If you smoke, you're mainly hurting yourself (sure there's secondary smoke, but it's not that important). If you're addicted to gambling, you're hurting your whole family (as in losing your house,...) as much as yourself.
This is really a bad news for all gambling addicts. Most of them can manage not to go near a casino, but with that even being near a computer could be "dangerous"...
Would *you* fly a Scramjet-like test-plane designed by a company? I think I'd rather fly in a plane designed by Nasa then one designed by a company. Sure, this one blew-off, but it was unmanned.
Had it been a company in a bad financial situation, they could have been tempted to put a man there. "Hey, if we don't do it, we'll go bankrupt, so we should at least try a manned mission. If it works, we're rich and if it doesn't, we're bankrupt anyway". Of course, this is a bit exagerated, but you get the idea.
Of course, NASA ain't perfect, but it's still more to be trusted than companies that need to reduce costs (read ValueJet).
Every program ever written under linux would be a derivative work of the kernel, which is GPL.
No. Linux explicitly states (in the Linux license) that. Using Linux system calls is not considered a derived work. Also, note that glibc is LGPL and not GPL to that you can link any program with it.
I think the number one reason MS is able to keep its monopoly with Windows is because of Word and the fact that most companies exchange word documents.
I use Mandrake (7.2) in a mostly MS-only workplace and I find it quite annoying to recieve all those Word Excel and Powerpoint documents by e-mail. For some of them, abiword or kword is OK, gnumeric is sometimes OK, but it's far from being optimal.
Does anyone know what happened with the paper they wanted to present on the SDMI challenge? I had heard they (Felton et al.) where threatened by the RIAA. However, I was at ICASSP 2001 and they had a paper about the SDMI challenge. Is this the same paper?
This paper explains and analyzes successful attacks submitted by the authors on four audio watermark proposals during a 3-week SDMI public challenge. Our analysis points out some weaknesses in the watermark techniques currently under SDMI consideration and suggests directions for further improvement. The paper also discusses the framework and strategies for analyzing the robustness and security of watermarking systems as well as the difficulty, uniqueness, and unrealistic expectations of the attack setup. [Keywords] audio watermark, data hiding, SDMI, attack analysis. [Websites] (1) http://www.cs.princeton.edu/sip/sdmi/ (2) http://www.ee.princeton.edu/~minwu/sdmi/rsch_sdmi. html (3) http://www.ee.princeton.edu/~sacraver/pubs.html
Piper is a peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed workflow system. It is an independent, GNU-based project which brings the power and flexibility of the GNU/UNIX command-line interface (CLI) to the graphical user interface (GUI) and Internet-distributed computing.
Networks, programs, files, widgets, and so on, can be Internet-distributed components represented in a GUI as the nodes of a flow chart. The user can join nodes via lines that depict links for data flow, procedural steps, relationships, and so forth.
Did you know that drug companies spend more on marketing than in research... Besides that, there's a large part of research (no idea of percentage, though) that's publicly funded and that happens in universities and hospitals (at least in countries, like Canada, where hospitals are public)...
Uhm. IIRC, they always granted free usage of binaries linked with their libraries, and only wanted to be payed if you developed non-free software using their toolkit.
That was after. When I started using KDE beta 2 (I think gnome didn't exist at that time), the license was "free for non-commercial use", meaning that you couldn't even use KDE commercially. I think they allowed free (beer) use for free (speech) software around version 1.0, but I'm not sure.
I totally agree too... and I'd add that IMHO, gnome is one of the main reason the Qt license changed. Remember that although RMS opposition to the QPL *might* be questionnable, the original license was "free (gratis) for non-commercial use". This meant that you weren't even allowed to run KDE at your company without paying a Qt license. This was around KDE1-beta2. The license later changed to free (gratis) when used with KDE (or something like that) and it's only after a while that it got released under the QPL.
If nobody had complained and the gnome project had not been started, we'd be in a really strange position now, with the only major Linux Desktop being excluded from companies.
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The thing is that there's a middle between not caring at all (like the original poster seemed to do) and sending the whole army and killing hundreds of thousands people in Iraq so you can free Koweit (not mentionning the latest "preventive strikes").
The US is very quick when there is commercial interests at stake and don't care at all when not. Don't believe this? Then why is there no economic relations Cuba because of human rights issues, while they're doing everything to promote trade with China?
I don't see how either human rights or software license abuse can be of any priority of yours if you don't live in China.
To paraphrase: "I don't care about anything that's not in my country". You must be american, right?
They can disrespect human rights human rights if they like, but not respecting the GPL is too much. We must fight to protect software freedom in China and save the GPL!
Seriously, as far as I'm concerned, software license abuse in China is not the top priority...
I may sound like a troll of sorts or anti Intel, but when it comes to high end scientific engineering does anyone actually use anything outside the realms of Sun, Irix, and Alpha?
I do. For my master project, I've trained hundred of neural networks, each taking between an hour and 2 days to train. At my job, we're doing the same kind of stuff on linux and solaris PC's. I believe a lot of people do that too. PC's are so cheap compared to the other architecture, that it's still the best thing to buy for many types of computations.
And by the way, training a neural network requires about one division for several millions of add/mul.
Is emacs better than vi?
Is gnome better than KDE?
Is AMD better than Intel?
Is Mandrake better than RedHat?
Is red better than blue?
OK, enough for now... Let the flames begin.
I just bought a DVD player, downloader omi (www.linuxvideo.org) and it worked without any problem. Note, however that it was using 80% CPU on my new Athlon 1.4 GHz.
The me, whether or not neutrinos travel at (exactly) the speed of light sounds about as important as whether or not they have a rest mass (well, I guess the two are linked anyway since I think you cannot have a particle with no rest mass traveling below the speed of light).
If it doesn't need to travel at the speed of light, that means you could theoreticaly stop one (which you cannot do with a photon, at least in vaccum). I wonder what a 1 kg "ball" of neutrinos would look like...
They mean the rest mass.
I though neutrinos traveled at the speed of light, is that wrong? Otherwise, the total mass would be m0/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2) which goes to infinity as v->c. What's wrong with this reasoning?
What kind of mass are they talking about? The mass at rest (m0) or the mass due to kinetic energy (m=E/c^2)? (A photon has only the latter)
The problem with this is that we are giving the evil aliens the blueprints of our species. There is the chance, however unlikely, that they might find a weakness... and exploit it.
They can't do that, it's illegal under the DMCA!
I remember when I bought my last CD player and the guy was explaining to me that there are different qualities of fiber (for CD digital IO). He told me he could hear the difference, that the sound with a lesser-quality fiber had a different "color" (I didn't tell him I had an EE degree). I would have liked to see this guy to do a listening test and try differentiating fiber quality.
Sure, there's a lot of different quality, but at these distances they're all equal. Moreover, bit errors will sound like (additive) white noise and will not "color" the sound. I don't know whether the guy believed what he said or was just trying to sell expensive stuff.
Yes, but it's sad that I can't moderate this moderator as "Funny"! We need to change meta-moderation...
Who moderated this as insightful??? Can I meta-moderate this as "Funny" or is this guy seriously thinking it's a good idea to apply this "Darwinian Monitoring Model".
If a person is addicted to gambling they will find a way to gamble - no matter the effort required.
It's not about those who want to gamble, it's for those who want to stop. Most can manage not to go to a casino, but with billions of banner ads saying "clink here to gamble", it's going to be a lot harder for these people not to gamble. If it takes you 30 minutes to drive to a casino, you've got plenty of time to reason to turn back, but if all it takes is two clicks, it becomes a lot harder.
There are two differences here. First, you can buy cigarettes online, but you cannot "smoke online"... and since it's more complicated online than going to the nearest store, online sale of tobacco is not making things any worse for you. Online gambling *is* making things worse.
...) as much as yourself.
The second important differences is the implications. If you smoke, you're mainly hurting yourself (sure there's secondary smoke, but it's not that important). If you're addicted to gambling, you're hurting your whole family (as in losing your house,
This is really a bad news for all gambling addicts. Most of them can manage not to go near a casino, but with that even being near a computer could be "dangerous"...
Would *you* fly a Scramjet-like test-plane designed by a company? I think I'd rather fly in a plane designed by Nasa then one designed by a company. Sure, this one blew-off, but it was unmanned.
Had it been a company in a bad financial situation, they could have been tempted to put a man there. "Hey, if we don't do it, we'll go bankrupt, so we should at least try a manned mission. If it works, we're rich and if it doesn't, we're bankrupt anyway". Of course, this is a bit exagerated, but you get the idea.
Of course, NASA ain't perfect, but it's still more to be trusted than companies that need to reduce costs (read ValueJet).
Every program ever written under linux would be a derivative work of the kernel, which is GPL.
No. Linux explicitly states (in the Linux license) that. Using Linux system calls is not considered a derived work. Also, note that glibc is LGPL and not GPL to that you can link any program with it.
I think the number one reason MS is able to keep its monopoly with Windows is because of Word and the fact that most companies exchange word documents.
I use Mandrake (7.2) in a mostly MS-only workplace and I find it quite annoying to recieve all those Word Excel and Powerpoint documents by e-mail. For some of them, abiword or kword is OK, gnumeric is sometimes OK, but it's far from being optimal.
If the nitrogen is kept at the right pressure, then it doesn't even have to be kept cold.
Well, the whole point of having liquid nitrogen is to keep the supraconductor cold... There's no point in having liquid nitrogen at room temperature.
Does anyone know what happened with the paper they wanted to present on the SDMI challenge? I had heard they (Felton et al.) where threatened by the RIAA. However, I was at ICASSP 2001 and they had a paper about the SDMI challenge. Is this the same paper?
. html (3) http://www.ee.princeton.edu/~sacraver/pubs.html
This paper explains and analyzes successful attacks submitted by the authors on four audio watermark proposals during a 3-week SDMI public challenge. Our analysis points out some weaknesses in the watermark techniques currently under SDMI consideration and suggests directions for further improvement. The paper also discusses the framework and strategies for analyzing the robustness and security of watermarking systems as well as the difficulty, uniqueness, and unrealistic expectations of the attack setup. [Keywords] audio watermark, data hiding, SDMI, attack analysis. [Websites] (1) http://www.cs.princeton.edu/sip/sdmi/ (2) http://www.ee.princeton.edu/~minwu/sdmi/rsch_sdmi
Piper: http://bioinformatics.org/piper/
Piper is a peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed workflow system. It is an independent, GNU-based project which brings the power and flexibility of the GNU/UNIX command-line interface (CLI) to the graphical user interface (GUI) and Internet-distributed computing.
Networks, programs, files, widgets, and so on, can be Internet-distributed components represented in a GUI as the nodes of a flow chart. The user can join nodes via lines that depict links for data flow, procedural steps, relationships, and so forth.
where drug research is hideously expensive
Did you know that drug companies spend more on marketing than in research... Besides that, there's a large part of research (no idea of percentage, though) that's publicly funded and that happens in universities and hospitals (at least in countries, like Canada, where hospitals are public)...
Uhm. IIRC, they always granted free usage of binaries linked with their libraries, and only wanted to be payed if you developed non-free software using their toolkit.
That was after. When I started using KDE beta 2 (I think gnome didn't exist at that time), the license was "free for non-commercial use", meaning that you couldn't even use KDE commercially. I think they allowed free (beer) use for free (speech) software around version 1.0, but I'm not sure.
I totally agree too... and I'd add that IMHO, gnome is one of the main reason the Qt license changed. Remember that although RMS opposition to the QPL *might* be questionnable, the original license was "free (gratis) for non-commercial use". This meant that you weren't even allowed to run KDE at your company without paying a Qt license. This was around KDE1-beta2. The license later changed to free (gratis) when used with KDE (or something like that) and it's only after a while that it got released under the QPL.
If nobody had complained and the gnome project had not been started, we'd be in a really strange position now, with the only major Linux Desktop being excluded from companies.